WHISPERING CITY: MODERN ROME AND ITS HISTORIES

Book ID/图书代码： 00200011B47501

English Summary/英文概要： In "Civilization and Its Discontents", Sigmund Freud claimed that Rome must be comprehended as ’not a human dwelling place but a mental entity’, in which the palaces of the Caesars still stand alongside modern apartment buildings in layers of brick, mortar, and memory. ’The observer would need merely to shift the focus of his eyes, perhaps, or change his position, in order to call up a view of either the one or the other’. In this one-of-a-kind book, historian Richard Bosworth accepts Freud’s challenge, drawing upon his expertise in Italian pasts to explore the many layers of history found within the Eternal City. Often beginning his analysis with sites and monuments that can still be found in contemporary Rome, Bosworth expands his scope to review how political groups of different eras - the Catholic Church, makers of the Italian nation, Fascists, and ’ordinary’ Romans (be they citizens, immigrants, or tourists) - read meaning into the city around them. Weaving in the city’s quintessential figures (Garibaldi, Pius XII, Mussolini, and Berlusconi) and architectural icons (the Vatican, St. Peter’s Basilica, the Victor Emmanuel Monument, and EUR) with those forgotten or unknown, Bosworth explores the many histories that whisper their rival and competing messages and seek to impose their truth upon the passing crowds. But as this delightful study will reveal, Rome, that magisterial palimpsest, has never accepted a single reading of its historic meaning.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 在《文明极其缺陷》一书中，西格蒙德•弗洛伊德出，罗马不仅仅是人类居住的城市，而是一个精神实体，那些罗马帝王的宫殿林立在现代建筑的砖砖瓦瓦之间。让观察者无法不去注意它们，也许还要改变他的位置，让他想起其他建筑的光景。

在这本书里，历史学家Richard Bosworth接受了弗洛伊德的挑战，用他的专业知识，探索罗马外城的层层历史奥秘。他以现代罗马仍然保留着的古迹为研究对象，Bosworth拓展了他的研究范围，包括不同历史时期的政治群体，天主教教堂，意大利国家的建立者，法西斯和普通的罗马（罗马的居民、移民和游客），解读这座城市的意义。这座城市的著名人物（加里波第，庇护十二世教皇，墨索里尼和贝卢斯科尼），还有标志性建筑（梵蒂冈，圣彼得大教堂，维克多伊曼纽二世纪念碑），Bosworth挖掘着这些历史，它们在这座喧嚣的城市窃窃私语，无时无刻不在向它的到访者们传递着历史的讯息。不过正如这项出色的研究将要揭露的一样，罗马，这座宏伟的精神坐标，仅仅用历史含义去解读从来是不够的。(GDN)

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About the Author/作者介绍： 著名英语母语的意大利研究学家，Richard Bosworth是雷丁大学的历史教授，同时也为西澳大学的Winthrop教授。2011年，他将成为牛津大学耶稣学院的高级研究员。
A renowned Anglophone Italianist, Richard Bosworth is Professor of History at Reading University and Winthrop Professor of History at the University of Western Australia. In 2011, he will become a Senior Research Fellow at Jesus College, Oxford.

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